PowerShell Byte Session

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 2 minutes and 27 seconds
Students: 3,897
Rating: 4.5/5

In this lesson, you will about the basic parts and patterns of PowerShell, different ways to get help at the command line, and how to use pipelines to create powerful chains of commands. This lesson is designed to be taken in tandem with the PowerShell Byte Session hands-on lab, so that as you work through this lesson, you can put the concepts into practice yourself in a live PowerShell environment.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the core principles of PowerShell
  • Learn how to issue commands using PowerShell’s interactive prompt
  • Execute PowerShell pipelines to create powerful chains of commands
  • Gain hands-on experience working with PowerShell

Prerequisites

No prior experience is required for this lesson, but some experience with other command-line shells such as Bash or Windows command prompt would be beneficial.

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for anyone looking to learn about PowerShell, whether they are using Linux, Mac, and Microsoft operating systems.

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